Re: [TCLUG:21519] apache URL problem

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Ben Lutgens wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I am using apache and would like the addresses rewritten.
> 
> When a person types http://www.globalfilesystem.org into thier location bar I
> want the seemlessly directed to http://www.sistina.com/gfs/ and have it show
> up thusly in the location bar. Right now we are using a redirect document as a
> "quick fix" but it's very irritating when you can't back out.

I usually use a .htaccess file.  You could do something like

Redirect / http://www.sistina.com/gfs/

which should do the redirection you're looking for.  The question
becomes, do you want sub-paths to be automatically redirected as well? 
I think this should work as I showed above.  Type in
`http://www.globalfilesystem.org/path/to/blah', and I think you will get
redirected to `http://www.sistina.com/gfs/path/to/blah'.

At any rate, you may want/need to set up a nice 404 document, which you
can specify with the `ErrorDocument' directive:

ErrorDocument 404 /gfs/path/to/fourohfour.html

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